Writing Challenges

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For any events, challenges and games you want to run. Challenges can be as formal or as relaxed as you like - writing sprees, themed prompts, fill fests and whatever else you can think of are all welcome! Please note that you shouldn't post actual fills on this post; please put those in response to whatever prompt they're filling and paste a link here, if needed.

You can make a thread on the discussion post advertising any new challenge, but the bulk of challenge-related activity should happen here.

On this post only, anyone running a challenge may post logged-in in order to be able to post clickable links & keep track of responses.

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Minor Character Fic Fest!

[enthusiasmgirl]

Welcome to the Daredevil Minor Character Fic Fest!

This challenge is set up to promote a wider variety of fanfiction that does not focus so much on the epic bromance of Foggy and Matt (as much as we all love it), and give smaller characters their time in the spotlight.

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RULES:

The rules of this challenge are as follows.

1. Fics submitted must be tagged with, and must focus on (as in, primarily be about or from the perspective of) a character from Daredevil from the following list:
   
   
   
   • Ben Urich
   
   
   • Leland Owsley
   
   
   • Brett Mahoney
   
   
   • Father Lantom
   
   
   • Turk Barrett
   
   
   • Detective Hoffman
   
   
   • Detective Blake
   
   
   • Nobu
   
   
   • Madame Gao
   
   
   • Ellison (Ben's editor at the Bulletin)
   
   
   • Josie (owner of Josie's bar)
   
   
   • Elena Cardenas
   
   
   • Doris Urich
   
   
   • Melvin Potter
   
   
   • Shirley (the hospital administrator who assists Ben)
   
   
   • Marlene (Fisk) Vistain
   
   
   • Santino
   
   
   • Black Sky


2. Fics submitted must be a minimum of 1000 words. There is no maximum word count in this challenge.


3. No long WIPs please, although multi-chapter works completed by the deadline are allowed.


4. This challenge is open as of August 7, 2015.


5. Fics must be submitted by September 1, 2015.


6. Fics are also encouraged to be cross-posted to the Archive of Our Own Collection for this challenge, which can be found here.


7. When you complete a fic, do not post it here. Instead, post it on the appropriate prompt and announce it here with the link in the same way you would announce it on the Completed fills post. If the fic does not fill a specific prompt, a generic prompt was created to post these fics. It can be found here.


8. People are encouraged to repost prompts from any of the Prompt Posts that are related to characters on the list on this post to help people to fill those prompts as part of this challenge! Even if you're not writing fics, you can still take part in the conversation and provide inspiration!


9. Three winners will be selected on October 1, 2015. These winners will be chosen via a survey that will be linked here and on the Daredevil Kink Meme asking readers to nominate their favourite challenge fic. The survey will open on September 2, 2015 and will close on September 30, 2015.


10. Winners will receive a prompt of their choice (it doesn't have to be their own) filled by me. Examples of my work can be found here. Fills will be a minimum of 3000 words long and will be delivered by December 1, 2015. The first place winner will also receive a copy of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee's Daredevil Vol. 7! It features Matt going up against werewolves, zombies and Frankenstein's monster and is the final volume of their initial run on the title.

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FAQ:

What do you have against the main characters of the show?

Absolutely nothing. It's just nice to sometimes read fic from a variety of different perspectives, or focus on prompts related to different characters. In fact, the hope is that once there are more stories about them, people may realize how awesome certain characters and be inspired to continue writing and reading about them.

Is this a challenge focused on Genfic?

Not at all! Shipping is completely welcome, as is smut. No genre or type of fic is off-limits as long as it focuses on at least one of the characters on the approved list.

How did you decide which characters to include and exclude from the challenge?

The decision was made based in part of AO3's list of characters by tag when you filter for Daredevil. Any character in the top 10 was excluded (including Claire, Wesley, Fisk, and Vladimir Ranskahov) because they are already being extensively written about. As well, I also left characters like Stick, Vanessa, Marci, and Jack Murdock off the list, because there are a wide variety of fics out there focused on them already. The list of characters to include was compiled using IMDB based on characters who appeared in more than one episode but don't appear in fic as often. I left off certain recurring characters (like Fisk's other bodyguard, Francis) just to ensure that the final list for this challenge had some diversity - the emphasis in the list is on characters of different race, age, gender and perceived attractiveness than are normally heavily featured in fic.

Am I allowed to include the main characters at all in my fic?

You can include other characters, including those not on the list, but the story must be about at least one of the characters you choose from the list. For example, you cannot write a fic about Foggy grieving Mrs. Cardenas' death and submit it to this challenge. That is still technically a story about Foggy. But fics about them interacting or her reflecting on her relationship with him are more than welcome!

The idea is to give the smaller characters their own sense of complexity and agency that doesn't just serve the main characters.

Let's Have a Holiday Secret Santa Gift Exchange!

[enthusiasmgirl]

If anyone is interested, please head on over to AO3 and sign-up for the challenge here: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/DD_SecretSanta_2015/profile

I'm posting this here so if you have any questions, you can ask them. You can also email daredevilficchallenge@gmail.com too!

Halloween Comment Fest

[ddk_mod]

We're having a one-day-only Halloween fest! Prompt and fill to your spooky heart's content over here:

🎃 Halloween Comment Fest! 🎃

Defenders Big Bang

[badlandformods]

We're running a Defenders Big Bang, with sign-ups opening on March 15th for both writers and artists, writing to begin on April 1st.

You can find us on the Defenders Big Bang Tumblr.

Challenge rules are here, schedule can be found here.

Defenders Post-Series Gift Exchange

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a mod for this, but I did notice that it wasn't posted here and I thought I'd spread the word, especially since it's encouraging people to write prompts from this very meme!

Defenders Post-Series Gift Exchange--you can find it and the rules on AO3, here:http://archiveofourown.org/collections/defenders_gift_exchange/profile